"sfb" wrote in message news:Qcntf.163$7x.160@trnddc03...
Receipts will be a sea change for vote selling. It doesn't happen much now
because it is all risk no reward to the buyer who has no way of knowing
how the seller actually voted.

Um...then the people buying votes are idiots, I guess.

As I already pointed out, absentee ballots are a perfect way to buy votes.
You don't even leave the voting up to the seller. You just get their vote
by proxy, through their absentee ballot.

A receipt removes all risk guaranteeing the buyer gets what they paid for.

Only for the seller too dumb to use absentee ballots.

Without receipts, the buyer has to seek out voters in advance. With
receipts, the buyer just stands outside the polling place and buys a sure
thing after the vote is cast.

Um, again...idiots? Anyone who stands outside a polling place and offers
money to anyone who just happened to vote the way they wanted, that's an
idiot right there.

"Sea change"? I don't think so.

Pete